It's a big, big week. The students are very patient. As we close in on the culminating event, there are awful long stretches with the entire company (35 campers!) in the gymnasium performance space at once. The air conditioner is loud, but necessary. In order to get over the din, we have moved from cowbell to whistle - to microphones!

Microphones are nice. My voice likes microphones.

It is thrilling to watch the kids do the things they have learned to do, especially the dancing, because it's just so much fun to watch kids dance. And they really enjoy it.

I am just about finished with the writing book - forty-eight pages! Those who have had the opportunity to flip through it have been very impressed. Everybody has something in there, from poetry to short stories to playscripts. It's a good read.

And a little dark. Can't be helped. The theme is CONFLICT RESOLUTION after all, it's ground we are familiar with in the GLTF School Residency program. Classic drama is rife with conflict, not all of it resolved. And these students are bright enough to know how conflict is supposed to be resolved ... and smart enough to know it doesn't always work out that way.

Welcome to the final week. It's gonna be a popper.